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by mempko 5y ago
This! People really don't understand that we have plenty of authoritarianism already and it's that authoritarianism is what got us here. If Musk could have invented something to solve climate change, you think we would still be sp
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by mempko 5y ago
We don't need to raise capital. We don't need taxes to pay for the renewable and adaptive work we need to do. Taxes are strictly punitive and saying we need to raise taxes to raise funds is not only wrong, but delays action.
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by mempko 5y ago
The solution is not authoritarianism. We have plenty of that now and got here because of that. We have not just governmental authoritarianism, but also in business. In fact, business authoritarianism is arguably why we are here.
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by mempko 5y ago
What did Musk or Bezos build? What did they invent? Nothing. Everything built and invented was by their workers. The success of Amazon and SpaceX/Tesla is a form of collective action. The collective action of employees, and the collect
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by mempko 5y ago
Texas Power Grid
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by mempko 5y ago
Texas Power Grid laughs.
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by mempko 5y ago
This is the quality content I'm here for from HN!
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by mempko 5y ago
What design nomenclature is terrible? Any examples?
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by mempko 5y ago
We always try to give utilitarian reason for animals doing what they do. I have a simpler explanation, the goose was playing. Having fun in the wind of the storm.
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by mempko 5y ago
Anyone remember the Croquet Project? Built with Smalltalk. Pretty cool object model for 3d, multi-user worlds. Connected via portals, the 3d equivalent to links. Built-in IDE. P2P. Didn't realize it but still going 20 years later! htt
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by mempko 5y ago
Cheap EVs are already here, made in China. Here is a $1k EV, that's right, $1k. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GG1RC7GV0Y
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by mempko 5y ago
Would you have preferred no ribbing? I think most people, including men, would.
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by mempko 5y ago
Or, you know, have a functioning public transport system. Oh well...
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by mempko 5y ago
That's my point, the paper doesn't answer the counterfactual or even hint at what the answer would be. You implied higher taxes allow the government to spend more, but this is not true since the government doesn't need taxes
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by mempko 5y ago
Actually this does NOT hint at an answer the counterfactual. Because spending is unchanged as a result of lower taxes from the government. Government spends as much as it did before cutting taxes (this is because the federal government does
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by mempko 5y ago
But you do realize, most technological advancement is done by the government right? Government investment in tech surpasses VC funding by a lot.
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by mempko 5y ago
Exactly. I've been coding C++ for 22 years and feel I know less now then I did back then. The language has grown. But at the same time I feel 10x more productive in it than 20 years ago.
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by mempko 5y ago
Yes, modern c++ code wont have manually deleting objects in memory.
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by mempko 5y ago
bluetooth has always been pretty bad.
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by mempko 5y ago
I guess I don't use Twitch. Can they turn off the monetization? Did they turn it on?
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by mempko 5y ago
First thing I see is a prime video ad. Amazon is helping fund neovim.
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by mempko 5y ago
These are great examples. I wrote about how this will propagate all sorts of bugs. But my argument was that it's good enough developers may get complacent and not review the auto complete closely enough. But maybe I'm wrong! Maybe
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by mempko 5y ago
That's what the green new deal is. A sound transition plan.
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Bugs Faster Than the Speed of Thought(mempko.wordpress.com)
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by mempko 5y ago
Finally, a faster way to spread bugs than copy/paste.
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by mempko 5y ago
I'm confused, are you denying any work (valuable or not) doesn't produce waste? Or does capitalism magically work outside of physics? Even without CO2, at the 2% annual growth target rate, the amount of energy humans would output
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by mempko 5y ago
> provided a net value to society. It helped increase net commerce on the internet. We also know that this increase in commerce contributes to climate change. The reality is we can't escape the second law of thermodynamics. So whene
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by mempko 5y ago
> It's your money after all. All money is debt. For you to have money, someone had to get into debt. Either privately via bank loans, or the public via the government spending (most likely bank loans, only 4% is government spending)
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by mempko 5y ago
Turns out the climate doesn't care about borders and kind of affects everything in our lives.
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by mempko 5y ago
Fractional reserve banking isn't a real thing though...

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